Verb

(star)

To look fixedly (at something).

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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

:staring windows or colours

(obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare .

* John Mortimer (1656?-1736)

*:Take off all the staring straws and jags in the hive.

Verb

(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,

He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he recognized the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house.

To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.

To acknowledge or consider as something.

To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

To give an award.

To show appreciation of.

to recognize services by a testimonial

(obsolete) To review; to examine again.

(South)

(obsolete) To reconnoiter.

Verb

(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

To cognize again.